Elmo wants the Modem Monitor icon on the Panel

alex radsky at ncia.net
Tue Jan 24 16:20:51 UTC 2006


Olafur Arason wrote:

>You go to Properties->User Privileges and it's Using Modem in
>users-admin
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I need some help on this.....where do you find 'Properties->User 
Properties'?

I can find 'dialout' by the 'System->Administration->User and Groups' route

>The group is called dialout if you want to know and /dev/ttyS* is
>in that group
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My 'dialout' group contains:
          alex
          cupsys
          elmo 
but no /dev/ttyS0 .

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>Olafur Arason
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>2006/1/24, alex <radsky at ncia.net>:
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>>Olafur Arason wrote:
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>>>Try going to System->Administration->User and Groups
>>>And adding that user to the Access Modem groups.
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>>There doesn't seem anything like a 'Access Modem' group
>>although one user can use the Panel icon to access the
>>modem.
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>>If 'pon' and 'poff' work for both users, it would seem
>>that either user is able to access a modem but I can't
>>find any indication of this in the 'User and Groups' listings
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>>>Olafur Arason
>>>2006/1/23, alex <radsky at ncia.net>:
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>>>>I recently added another user (Elmo) and would like to give him some of
>>>>the privileges  of the first user, in this instance, a means of
>>>>accessing internet by clicking a 'Modem Monitor' icon on the Panel.
>>>>
>>>>The first thing I did after adding the second user was run
>>>>'pppconfigure' to give Elmo internet privileges.  Elmo was then able to access internet with the 'pon' command.
>>>>
>>>>There was no problem for the first user;  all he had to do was right
>>>>click the panel and and select 'add to panel' then select the 'Modem
>>>>Monitor' icon in 'System and Hardware' and the icon appeared on the
>>>>Panel. (He also found that the icon could simply be dragged to the Panel.)
>>>>
>>>>The second user (Elmo) can drag the 'Modem Monitor' icon from  'System
>>>>and Hardware' but it won't drop onto the Panel or any other place.
>>>>The  'add to panel'  option doesn't work either.  Strangely, Elmo can
>>>>place other 'System and Hardware' icons on the panel, just not the
>>>>'Modem Monitor'.  It almost seems that 'Modem Monitor' can be used by
>>>>only one user.
>>>>
>>>>However, Elmo can access internet with the 'pon' command and conduct
>>>>email and web business.  It's just that he can't use the 'Modem Monitor'
>>>>icon that's available in the 'Add to Panel' menu.
>>>>
>>>>Elmo would like to have the 'Modem Monitor' to access internet...what
>>>>does he have to do?
>>>>
>>>>Kermit
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